James Carrige Rushe Lardner (22 May 1879 – 3 May 1925) was an Irish Nationalist Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for North Monaghan, 1907–18.
Born at the Diamond, Monaghan, he was the son of Hugh William Lardner, a traveller for a wine merchant, and Anne Loughran.
[4] In 1920 he married Rita, daughter of Sir Joseph Downes of South Hill, a Nationalist alderman and High Sheriff of Dublin and a director of Hibernian General Insurance.
[8] Lardner was elected unopposed for North Monaghan in a by-election in June 1907, although his nomination as the Nationalist candidate had been opposed by the powerful Joseph Devlin, whose Ancient Order of Hibernians was in competition with the Irish National Foresters.
[9] In the two general elections of 1910 Lardner was challenged by the Unionist Michael Elliott Knight, but won comfortably each time with 63% of the vote.